Samuel Reber

Deceased Person

1903 – 1971

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Who was Samuel Reber?

Samuel Reber was a diplomat who spent 27 years in the Foreign Service of the United States, including several years with the Allied High Commission for Germany. Threats by Senator Joseph McCarthy to reveal a homosexual incident in his past forced him to resign quietly from the State Department in 1953. McCarthy later publicly alleged that Reber had been forced to retire because he posed a "security risk."

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Born
Jul 15, 1903
East Hampton
Education
  • Harvard University
  • Groton School
Died
Dec 25, 1971
Princeton

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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